A lot is being written about how an amazing percentage of spree killers were on SSRI medicines.
Or were taking them erratically.
I would say that they were onto something, except there are thousands and thousands of people taking these meds who aren't shooting anyone everyday. Day in, day out.
I think what it will boil down to is there are people who present as good candidates for SSRI therapy whom will respond by getting more psychotic, not less.
What we have going on politically will impede the study needed to identify those people and will likely infringe on the rights of people who need the therapy and are not dangerous.
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My own take on blaming the meds is that people who're more-or-less insane often will be on meds for it; sometimes those either don't work or don't work as well as we hope they will. Kind of like how a lot of people who die of heart attacks are on mediciation for heart conditions.
ReplyDeleteAnd we did have mass shootings and the like a long time before anti-psychotic medications ever existed.